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A DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED.; JOSHUA GIFFORD, THE WIFE MURDERER, TO SPEND HIS REMAINING DAYS IN PRISON.

ALBANY, June 18.--The Governor yesterday commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of Joshua Gifford, of Oswego County, who was sentenced by Judge Vann to be hanged at Oswego for the murder of his wife. The Governor's reasons are given in the following memorandum which accompanied the commutation:

June 19, 1883

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